1 rupee coin silver queen victoria india british 1892

Country india british denomination 1 rupee year 1892 period queen victoria 1862 1901 type of coinage regular issue ruler victoria material silver 0 917 edge ribbed shape circle relation abc rev medal 0 weight g 11 66 diameter mm 30 78 rupee of british possessions in india in 1671 british ost The Indian company issued the first rupee in imitation of the coin of the Mughal Empire, but the quality of rupees varied from region to region from the middle of the 18th century. The issue of English rupees was limited to three types: Bengal rupees Sikka sicca rupie Bombay rupees Sirat sirat rupie and Madras rupees arcot arcot rupie In 1835, the issue of unified rupees ost began of the Indian Company with the image of English kings, a portrait of William IV was placed on the first such rupee. The total weight of the coin was 11,664 g. 10,692 g of pure silver in 1862, this coin was called the government rupee. 1 rupee 16 annas 64 paisams 192 payas 15 rupees were 1 gold muhr rupee banknotes in the second half In the 18th century, the issuance of rupees in the form of paper banknotes began; they were issued by the Hindustan Bank 1770 1832 General Bank of Bengal and Bihar 1773 1775 Bengal Bank 1784 1791 and some others in 1861 the British government received a monopoly on the issue of paper money in India in 1935 the Reserve Bank of India was founded which carried out the issue of money the fall of the rupee historically the rupee was a silver coin while the currencies of all the great powers were based on the gold standard at the end of the 19th century due to a sharp decrease in the cost of silver relative to gold within a short time there was a drop in the exchange rate of the rupee if in the 70s of the 19th century the rupee cost just over 23 pence then at the end of the 19th century the exchange rate equated one rupee to 15 pence then there are to 1 16 pounds sterling rupees of other British possessions the British Indian rupee became widespread in Arabia, the East African possessions of Britain and the islands of the Indian Ocean up to Natal at the beginning of the 19th century for some time the rupees of the British East India Company were used in Australia in 1836 the Indian rupee became the main monetary unit of Ceylon in 1871 Ceylon began to issue its own rupee is 100 cents, thus in Ceylon the transition of the rupee to the decimal system took place for the first time in 1878, Mauritius began to issue its own rupee in 1914, the Seychelles Islands in the Maldives, the Ceylon rupee circulated for some time, the own silver coin of the Maldivian islands was called rufiyaa in 1906 1920 the rupee was a monetary unit of British East Africa 1 rupee British East Africa 100 cents in 1908 1935 the rupee was the currency of Zanzibar 1 rupee of Zanzibar 100 cents it was on par with the Indian rupee after the British conquest of Burma in 1852, its currency became the Indian rupee in 1938 Burma became an independent British colony a year before, the release of the Burmese rupee began, which continued until 1952. In 1952, the Burmese rupee was replaced by the kyat.